[Fedora-livecd-list] A note about /etc/skel

[J.Heather at surrey.ac.uk]

Is this on a USB stick with persistent /home? If so, then you'll also hit problems if the file is too big to fit into there.

But the most likely is that the in-memory overlay is being exhausted. Fedora will create a temporary overlay in memory to handle writes to the filesystem.

James

Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:


On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 07:49:55 -0400,
   john <selmys at lotuspond.ca> wrote:
>Hello
>
>I noticed that when I copy a large file into /etc/skel during %post
>my ISO is created correctly but crashes on boot up. The crash happens
>when liveuser is being created and the large file in /etc/skel is
>copied to /home/liveuser. If I boot into single user mode first and
>delete the large file from /etc/skel and then "telinit 5", liveuser
>is created and everything works correctly. I tried to rebuild the ISO
>using a larger root partition but still got the same problem. If I
>copy the large file to /usr/local there is no problem.
>Does anyone know if there is some sort of size restrictions on files
>added to /etc/skel ?

If the file is so large that copying it runs you out of memory, that could
potentially be your problem.
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